From fiction to reality

Bernhard 2022-03-27 08:01:01

Godard once said that "a movie starts with Griffith and ends with Abbas", which is the highest evaluation for Iranian director Abbas. "Film Begins with Griffith" means a unique spatiotemporal art form due to Griffith's creative editing and structural skills that separate film itself from its recording function, while "Film ends with Abbas" It means that Abbas continues to bring the film from the art form back to the real life by revealing the fictional nature of the film and the truth behind the fictional plot. Abbas's three films "Where Is My Friend's Home", "Life and Flow" and "The Lover Under the Olive Tree" are the process of constantly excavating "the truth behind the fiction". And Abbas's new work this year, "Legal Copies", also continues his false authenticity problem by exploring the philosophical/aesthetic proposition of "whether a fake can have the value contained in the original".

The film begins with a book discussion about "whether a counterfeit has the functional and aesthetic value of the original". As in the story that inspired the writer (the hero) to write, "A mother tells her son the history and aesthetics of a sculpture without telling him that it is a forgery, but the son unknowingly learns from it. The artistic value of the original is seen in the fake.” However, in the case of "unknowing", the meaning of counterfeit lacks discussion value, and in the case of "informed", that is, when you know that this thing is a fake, can it also play a role in you? The effect of the original work is the topic of discussion throughout the film.

The film starts with the aesthetic value and the definition of originality of artworks, and uses the discussion of "art and aesthetics" to lay the foundation for the film, and then continues to discuss the issue of "identity", whether a stranger can replace the original husband. With the identity of "husband", can it play the same function after it has identity. The hostess of the cafe and the man in a couple of tourists both misunderstand the relationship between the writer (the hero) and the art collector (the heroine). Thus, relative to a woman, the writer's identity changes from a stranger to a husband (with the change of language, the transition from English to French is a symbol of identity change), and through a shoulder-shouldering action, the host and the host recognize each other. The identity of husband and wife, and each other is an identity fake to each other. But the pair of fakes began to discuss the crisis and problems of their marriage, and through reconciliation and understanding to eliminate this crisis, the fake even surpassed the original and had an original function.

The same artworks (fakes and originals) have different interpretation methods and aesthetic values ​​in specific situations and contexts. The way is that observers or interveners must start from the assumed meaning and enter their own real situation through fiction. . Just as the heroine can enter a fictional "husband and wife model" through the identification of the writer's "husband status", but gets a real and personal "spiritual comfort".

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  • Wiley 2022-03-27 09:01:23

    It would be very shocking to put a few cameras in the theater where "Tangshan Earthquake" was played to record the scenes of various people crying, and then make a movie. Viewing address: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQzMjIxNTk2.html

  • Adeline 2022-03-27 08:01:01

    The representative of the perfect combination of play and film language, the whole process is chatter, but there is no trace of boredom. It was a little sleepy, but it completely dissipated. The changeable composition and the rich plot in the picture are self-contained and perfectly integrated with the story. This character of Binoche may be the most full I have seen in a while, and I am amazed at her free shuttle between languages. Second, it can be said that she is the soul of this trip, and the performance is sincere and interesting.

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